Ono KЕЌsei: Chinese Animation in Japan, 1940s-1980s Yan Shuchen: Childhood Memories: Chinese Animation and the Shanghai Animation Film Studio from the Eyes of an AnimatorвЂ™s SonДЇung Yuk Song: The Tradition of Political Propaganda in 20 th Century Chinese Animation Yin Xiyong: Those Who Should Not Be Forgotten in the History of Chinese Animation Panel 3: April 28 (Friday): 14:00-18:00, Room 7336, Lifts 13-15Дai Tielang: In Love with My Animated Filmmaking Pu Yong: On the Art of Papercutting Animation Jin Fuzai: Music I Have Composed for Animated Films Yan Shanchun: From a Layman to an Animator: My Animated Filmmaking Journey Pu Jiaxiang: National Style and Characterization in Chinese Animation Lin Wenxiao: Thoughts on Animated FilmmakingД¬hang Guangxi: Tradition and Innovation: In Memory of Animated Filmmaking at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Mochinaga Noriko: Mochinaga Tadahito and Animated Filmmaking in Early New ChinaДuan Xiaoxuan: Walking Our Own Path and Making Innovations in Chinese Animated Filmmaking Panel Chair: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities Welcome Speech: James Lee, Chair Professor, Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science

Their narratives revisit their gorgeous animation classics, reveal hidden histories and names behind the scenes, and bring us back to that unique era in a collective and nostalgic search for a glorious and irreproducible time that was once lost to history, but will now be recovered through their animated stories. This roundtable forum will discuss animated filmmaking in (post)socialist China from the insider perspectives of these animators. The Shanghai Animation Film Studio continued to keep its socialist collective mode of production, and its accomplished animators were mainly those who matured and thrived during the socialist era. Although the majority of these masterpieces were made by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio during the socialist years, the studio continued its productions in the post-socialist 1980s and witnessed another artistic peak, which we can argue was actually an extension of the socialist era. Dynamic and creative, it produced hundreds of high quality animated films and marked a brilliant page in the history of animation not only in China but worldwide. The state-owned Shanghai Animation Film Studio was the only animation studio that existed during the socialist era. Contrary to this stereotype, however, it was during these decades of вЂњsuppression of literature and artsвЂќ that Chinese animation reached a zenith of artistic splendor. Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyДЇilms produced in socialist China (1949-1976) have often been regarded as political propaganda without much artistic creativity. AnimatorsвЂ™ Roundtable Forum: Chinese Animation and (Post)Socialism

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